Smita Mandlik’s works are collages of coarse cloth, fevicol, different types of wet paper and threads along with watercolour. She derives inspiration from her study of music and the environment in which she grew up.
It was when she came to Mumbai after marriage that she started painting. She began with making small objects of craft with plastic clay and fevicol. She moved on to produce paintings – with wet newspapers, coarse cloth, threads of different types, fevicol, colours as well as paper-mache.
It is apparent that the sensitive musician in her has helped her in the creation of paintings which look like abstracted works. Smita Mandlik is holding her exhibition at the Jehangir Art Gallery – till Sunday. Contact: 9867210942, 9867380105.